Just in case you’ve missed the news / reddit the last few days: [it’s a thing now](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx271162ee3o), probably right wingers, though they’re claiming they’re just being patriotic all of a sudden.
Not even well done, should have used a stencil and better paint smh
Gammons will complain that you’re not allowed to fly the flag anymore when in reality you just can’t go around hanging stuff up on random lampposts and vandalising zebra crossings
I actually don’t care about the flags on the lamppost, but painting crossings and roundabouts is so unbelievably tin pot.
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I thought it was considered disrespectful to step on flags. Isn’t it something people normally do to their enemies?
I wouldn’t have even noticed the lamppost flag. The crossing just makes me think “these children have too much time on their hands”
More people trying to stoke race riots.
It’s not “patriotic”, it’s clearly xenophobic and parochial.
Bringing out my popcorn for the comments:
It just looks like utter shit.
People who did this should have a team visit their homes and cover literally everything in their house in a St George’s cross. Everything. Walls, carpets, bed spreads, clothes, car, fridge, tv, oven, windows, grass (if they have a lawn), plates, kettle, microwave, beds, all pictures and posters should be just the flag. Because the poor sods have clearly forgotten which country they live in and need constant reminding.
We’ve had a few mini roundabouts sprayed in Bath too. A bloke a few doors down form me has started flying a small flag with a Knights Templar maltese/crusader cross (small red cross where the end of each arm is fanned a bit), which you often see pictured at the old EDL rallies. A few guys wore them when they illegally entered the US Capitol too. He has it flying higher than the St George’s cross also flying in his garden. All in all, interesting.
Idiots should’ve painted the entire middle one red and put a red block in the middle of the two closest to the pavements. This is so amateurish.
Can a government official create a proper flag post somewhere, where these people can volunteer to raise the flag at sunrise and lower it at sunset on a schedule like in most countries, sing the anthem if you wish. I bet within a few weeks the list will get shorter and shorter.
Idiots compensating for something really hard, just spraying any white thing with red is just vandalism
Are you called Patrick Star?
Peoples grandparents fought the nazis to protect our rights to haphazardly paint pink lines on the road
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It doesn’t even look good like just put it outside your house not spray painting crossings and putting flags up on random poles
Same thing is happening in other parts of London
Nothing with Union flags per se, but cheap polyester cloth hastily zip-tied to posts and left out 24/7 will soon become tatty and faded.
Then when someone removes said crappy-looking flags, right wing maniacs will have an excuse to get performatively outraged.
Only question I have for the people doing this is why now?
If it’s just a display of patriotism (as they claim), then why have they only begun to do it now?
It’s almost as if they’ve been driven by nefarious cultural subtext spurred by dishonest politics
I don’t mind the Union Jack displays.. vandalism on the ground though, looks stupid, And.. like wearing flag pants, is really just disrespectful. Not patriotic.
twickenham – the whitest part of London. Id be surprised if there’s any asylum seekers even in that postcode district
The flags appear to be flying at half mast, is there anything I should be concerned about?
They must really hate this country to paint the flag that badly. It’s an insult to the nation!
I’ve travelled a fair bit over the last 2-3 weeks. I have spotted this in Plymouth, Exeter, Westbury, Manchester, Liverpool, and Newcastle. My guess is that inbred right-wing racists are using petty graffiti to push their crackpot narrative. I imagine there are a multitude of Facebook groups supporting it.
Maybe it’s just me, but I would find it disrespectful to walk on a flag.
Don’t see the point of spraying the St George’s Cross on the floor.
Nothing says patriotism than spray painting on the road so cars and people can drive/walk upon the flag and tying a cheap made in china flag onto lamppost which will have zero unkeep as they get torn and dirty by the wind
I honestly wouldn’t mind the flags, the cross walks and everything if the people behind it didn’t hate my absolute guts for just existing
On its own, and with a bit more polish, it could be a lovely thing to see! Not as a symbol of hate
As someone who owns a white car I am concerned about this trend.
It’s all a bit low end for twickers
Imagine if these people spent their time doing something productive.
Just looks so naff
Painting on the flag on crossings is so disrespectful to the country, people walk and drive on that so it shows they actually want to see our flag trampled over, you don’t get more patriotic than that. Next thing the Daily Heil will try to say anyone using public infrastructure is now woke and unpatriotic.
Absolute jobless freaks with nothing better to do than follow social trends and mindless “movements” hidden under a blanket of xenophobia.
Nothing wrong with flying your flag but why is it only now people are doing it after a bunch of clearly racist knuckleheads decided it was “time”?
I bet you the people doing these were the same ones up in arms about the rainbow zebra crossings.
Its graffiti and the flags on council assets is a form of fly posting. Both are illegal. I hope a council can catch someone and make an example of them in court.
It was far right residents “tAKinG ArE CuNtRy BaCk” – the absolute weapons-grade fuckwits have done exactly the same thing here in Bristol; every zebra crossing, every dashed white line, every ‘no entry’ sign, every speed limit sign in the city centre has been sprayed with a red cross, so now the council has to spend money it almost certainly doesn’t have cleaning it all up. It’s probably the same in most major cities; I bet if I checked the Leeds and Sheffield subs, there’d be posts there of exactly the same thing.
You ***REALLY*** think the council would spray-paint crosses on zebra crossings…?!
Overly?
I know that we don’t copy from the continentals, but can’t these patriots take a leaf from France’s books? There’s a billion French flags there, and usually well kept and placed.
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Just in case you’ve missed the news / reddit the last few days: [it’s a thing now](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx271162ee3o), probably right wingers, though they’re claiming they’re just being patriotic all of a sudden.
Not even well done, should have used a stencil and better paint smh
Gammons will complain that you’re not allowed to fly the flag anymore when in reality you just can’t go around hanging stuff up on random lampposts and vandalising zebra crossings
I actually don’t care about the flags on the lamppost, but painting crossings and roundabouts is so unbelievably tin pot.
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I thought it was considered disrespectful to step on flags. Isn’t it something people normally do to their enemies?
I wouldn’t have even noticed the lamppost flag. The crossing just makes me think “these children have too much time on their hands”
More people trying to stoke race riots.
It’s not “patriotic”, it’s clearly xenophobic and parochial.
Bringing out my popcorn for the comments:
It just looks like utter shit.
People who did this should have a team visit their homes and cover literally everything in their house in a St George’s cross. Everything. Walls, carpets, bed spreads, clothes, car, fridge, tv, oven, windows, grass (if they have a lawn), plates, kettle, microwave, beds, all pictures and posters should be just the flag. Because the poor sods have clearly forgotten which country they live in and need constant reminding.
We’ve had a few mini roundabouts sprayed in Bath too. A bloke a few doors down form me has started flying a small flag with a Knights Templar maltese/crusader cross (small red cross where the end of each arm is fanned a bit), which you often see pictured at the old EDL rallies. A few guys wore them when they illegally entered the US Capitol too. He has it flying higher than the St George’s cross also flying in his garden. All in all, interesting.
Idiots should’ve painted the entire middle one red and put a red block in the middle of the two closest to the pavements. This is so amateurish.
Can a government official create a proper flag post somewhere, where these people can volunteer to raise the flag at sunrise and lower it at sunset on a schedule like in most countries, sing the anthem if you wish. I bet within a few weeks the list will get shorter and shorter.
Idiots compensating for something really hard, just spraying any white thing with red is just vandalism
Are you called Patrick Star?
Peoples grandparents fought the nazis to protect our rights to haphazardly paint pink lines on the road
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It doesn’t even look good like just put it outside your house not spray painting crossings and putting flags up on random poles
Same thing is happening in other parts of London
Nothing with Union flags per se, but cheap polyester cloth hastily zip-tied to posts and left out 24/7 will soon become tatty and faded.
Then when someone removes said crappy-looking flags, right wing maniacs will have an excuse to get performatively outraged.
Only question I have for the people doing this is why now?
If it’s just a display of patriotism (as they claim), then why have they only begun to do it now?
It’s almost as if they’ve been driven by nefarious cultural subtext spurred by dishonest politics
I don’t mind the Union Jack displays.. vandalism on the ground though, looks stupid, And.. like wearing flag pants, is really just disrespectful. Not patriotic.
twickenham – the whitest part of London. Id be surprised if there’s any asylum seekers even in that postcode district
The flags appear to be flying at half mast, is there anything I should be concerned about?
They must really hate this country to paint the flag that badly. It’s an insult to the nation!
I’ve travelled a fair bit over the last 2-3 weeks. I have spotted this in Plymouth, Exeter, Westbury, Manchester, Liverpool, and Newcastle. My guess is that inbred right-wing racists are using petty graffiti to push their crackpot narrative. I imagine there are a multitude of Facebook groups supporting it.
Maybe it’s just me, but I would find it disrespectful to walk on a flag.
Don’t see the point of spraying the St George’s Cross on the floor.
Nothing says patriotism than spray painting on the road so cars and people can drive/walk upon the flag and tying a cheap made in china flag onto lamppost which will have zero unkeep as they get torn and dirty by the wind
I honestly wouldn’t mind the flags, the cross walks and everything if the people behind it didn’t hate my absolute guts for just existing
On its own, and with a bit more polish, it could be a lovely thing to see! Not as a symbol of hate
As someone who owns a white car I am concerned about this trend.
It’s all a bit low end for twickers
Imagine if these people spent their time doing something productive.
Just looks so naff
Painting on the flag on crossings is so disrespectful to the country, people walk and drive on that so it shows they actually want to see our flag trampled over, you don’t get more patriotic than that. Next thing the Daily Heil will try to say anyone using public infrastructure is now woke and unpatriotic.
Absolute jobless freaks with nothing better to do than follow social trends and mindless “movements” hidden under a blanket of xenophobia.
Nothing wrong with flying your flag but why is it only now people are doing it after a bunch of clearly racist knuckleheads decided it was “time”?
I bet you the people doing these were the same ones up in arms about the rainbow zebra crossings.
Its graffiti and the flags on council assets is a form of fly posting. Both are illegal. I hope a council can catch someone and make an example of them in court.
It was far right residents “tAKinG ArE CuNtRy BaCk” – the absolute weapons-grade fuckwits have done exactly the same thing here in Bristol; every zebra crossing, every dashed white line, every ‘no entry’ sign, every speed limit sign in the city centre has been sprayed with a red cross, so now the council has to spend money it almost certainly doesn’t have cleaning it all up. It’s probably the same in most major cities; I bet if I checked the Leeds and Sheffield subs, there’d be posts there of exactly the same thing.
You ***REALLY*** think the council would spray-paint crosses on zebra crossings…?!
Overly?
I know that we don’t copy from the continentals, but can’t these patriots take a leaf from France’s books? There’s a billion French flags there, and usually well kept and placed.
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